Fun Reads Friday: Faith and Destiny, by Philip Lazowski

I love reading books about World War II. Maybe it’s the courageous battles so many people faced in such a terrible situation. Maybe it’s seeing the hand of God move among His chosen. Or maybe it’s the desire of human nature to learn all we can learn about history, to feel compassion for others and to ensure that we make sure to do all we can to prevent history from repeating itself. Sometimes, (well, often), I try to put myself into each character’s shoes (or strips of cloth wrapped around his feet used as shoes), to feel what they felt and to see life as it was for them.

Yes, there are times when I’m so enraptured by the story I forget where I am and find myself back in 1946 England, 1700’s America…or a forest in Poland in 1944. Faith and Destiny, by Philip Lazowski is not only an autobiography of a young Polish boy who survived during the Nazi occupation, but the boy (now man) currently lives in a town that isn’t far from where I live.

While I enjoy historical fiction, reading Faith and Destiny opened the door to another world: life in the ghetto, pretending to be a stranger’s child to avoid death at a concentration camp, and life among the Partisans in the woods. I marvel at how this man, then only a young Jewish boy, managed to depend on God so much that he lived to tell his story.

Do you like to read autobiographies? What about historical fiction? Have you ever found yourself like me, so enraptured in another world that you almost forget to breath? I’d love to hear! Remember, any comments in July and you will be entered into our July giveaway!